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No. 389,364. I Patented Sept. 11, 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS \V. CARPENTER, OF HARRISON, NEW YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent: No. 389,364, datedSeptember 11, 1888.

Application filed February 27, 1888. Serial No. 265,391.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANCIS W. CARPENTER, of Harrison, in the county of\Vestchester and State of New York, have invented an Improvement inToys, of which the following is a specification.

Toy locomotives have heretofore been constructed with a cylinder andplunger, the plunger being connected to a crank or crankpin, so as to bemoved when the locomotive is drawn along the floor and produce a puttingor whistling action in imitation of steam passing off in a locomotive.This device is expensive to construct, liable to get out of order,anddifficult to repair. My invention is made for imitating the puff of thesteam in a toy locomotive or toy fire or other engine by a cheap andefficient device applied to the ordinary toy locomotive, so that bydrawing such toy along a noise will be made resembling the puff of theexhaust-stearn.

In the drawings, Figure I is an elevation of the toy locomotive,partially in section. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan representing the axleand the device for making a noise in imitation ofthe puffing of steam;and Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are modifications of the said device.

I find that by drawing across the surface of a piece of sand-paper anarm or finger preferably in the form of a piece of sheet metal there isa noise made that resembles the puffing of a locomotive or the escape ofsteam, and in applying my invention to toy locomotives the piece ofsand-paper A or other roughened surface-such, for instance, as a pieceof sheet metal with fine projections or perforations in the same -is tobe fastened upon the toy in such a way that a rubbing article is broughtperiodically into contact with such roughened surface. I prefer to makeuse of this sandpaper or roughened surface A within the base of thelocomotive or engine and to attach the same at one end by a clamp orscrew, B, so that the other portion of the sand-paper is loose and freeto rise and fall, and I place upon the axle O of the drivers D an arm orsmall plate, G, of sheet metal, so that as the axle is revolved bydrawing the toy along upon the floor the end of this arm presses againstthe roughened surface and lifts the same and also draws across thisroughened surface, producing a vibration or sound corresponding veryclosely 55 to the puff of steam in an actual lomotive.

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I do not limit myself to any particular position in which to place thepiece of sandpaper or other roughened body, nor to the shape orcharacter of the moving device that rubs across such roughened surface,because the moving device may describe the are of a circle parallel withthe plane of the said sand-paper instead of at right angles to it, andthe moving article may be reciprocated, if desired.

The movement is usually derived from the wheels of the toy as the sameis drawn along or propelled, and the sand-paper or roughened surface isintroduced at whatever part of the toy is most convenient and suitablysecured or supported in its place, so as to pro duce the desired sound.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination, with a toy having wheels,of a device having a roughened surface, such as sand paper, and an armor equivalent moving body actuated by the toy as it is moved along, thesame being adapted to produce sonorous vibrations by the contact of theparts, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a toy having wheels, of an arm connected to oneof the revolving shafts upon such toy, and a piece of sandpaper orsimilar roughened material at tached at one end to the toy and free atthe other end, and with the surface of which sandpaper the revolving armcomes into contact, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, in a toy having rcvolving shafts, of a piece ofsand-paper or other roughened material, a fastening device forconnecting it to the toy, and a finger or projecting piece of metalfastened to one ofthe revolving shafts of such toy and constructed tobear on such roughened material, substantially as set forth.

4-. The combination, in a toy having wheels, of a device having aroughened surface, such as sand-paper, and an arm or piece of metalconstructed to bear upon such roughened surface periodically by themovement of the toy to produce a sound similar to escaping steam,substantially asspecified.

Signed by me this 24th day of February, 1888.

FR ANOIS IV.

CARPENTER.

